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Were you hit by power cuts in Newport and Cwmbran?

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"We had four separate times when the power dropped out for what can only be timed as only few seconds but it knocked out the sky box each time. We thought it was a storm as there was a flash each time.
Houses opposite us lost all their power but that could have been the consumer unit tripping out. Our area is Coedeva Cwmbran"

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The underground cable fault which caused last night's power problems was at Llantarnam primary sub-station a Western Power spokeswoman said. 344 homes in Ty Coch, Cwmbran lost power for about an hour from 9.10pm last night.

The flickering across Gwent was caused by engineers carrying out tests on the circuit.

The spokeswoman said the company does not know what caused the fault and engineers are working to find out the reasons this morning. There should be no more faults today, she said.

UPDATE: 9.32am

WERE you hit by power cuts in Newport, Cwmbran, Caerleon and Risca last night? Let us know.

A spokesperson for Western Power said there was an underground cable fault in the area and all supplies have been restored. They apologised for for any disruption.

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